Primary Electrical Engineer – Substation Design

PeopleStrong; Sharjah; On-site; AED 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

PeopleStrong is seeking a Design Engineer (Primary) in electrical engineering to review and size busbars, UPS, DG, LT transformers, and earthing conductors for substations. You will coordinate with Civil, Structural, MEP, and Instrumentation teams to ensure compliance with specifications.

Responsibilities include SLD/Layout engineering, cable routing, protection and inter-disciplinary checks, and review of vendor offers. Requires BE/B.Tech in Electrical and 3–7 years in substation design.

Qualifications

• General awareness of Dialux and MS Office
• Desirable awareness of ETAP, PSCAD and CYMGRD

Responsibilities

• Timely review of the drawings developed by the draftsman
• Interact with Site Execution & Cluster teams for clarification w.r.t. the design of equipment
• Coordinate with inter-disciplinary areas, inter-departmental checks (Civil & Structural, MEP & Instrumentation) for obtaining concurrence in design specifications
• Ensure compliance to specification requirements
• Review of drawings (2D & 3D) and Documentation conforming to Quality systems
• Review of Vendor Offers and Documents
• Pre-Tender Engineering including estimation of BOM (Bill of Materials) and Offer Reviews
• Prepare design calculations of all Substation equipment (sizing calculations of Busbar, UPS, DG, LT Transformer, Earthing Conductor) & other calculations (viz. Short circuit force, Sag tension etc.)
• Reviewing of Bill of Material and comparing with the Tender Quantity

Skills

Dialux

MS Office

ETAP

PSCAD

CYMGRD

Education

B.E. / B.Tech in Electrical / Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Job description

PeopleStrong is seeking a Design Engineer (Primary) in electrical engineering to review and size busbars, UPS, DG, LT transformers, and earthing conductors for substations. You will coordinate with Civil, Structural, MEP, and Instrumentation teams to ensure compliance with specifications.

Responsibilities include SLD/Layout engineering, cable routing, protection and inter-disciplinary checks, and review of vendor offers. Requires BE/B.Tech in Electrical and 3–7 years in substation design.